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Blog: The Third Person
Blogs from February: Mental toolbox, moving house, chaning your electronic face, fashion advisors, good workplaces.
Blogs from January: Knowledge Transfer and Annotophilia...
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Blog: The General Malaise
Blog: Similarity and Difference
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Blog: The surprising power of many minor actions
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Blog: Grunting in Tennis and social gamesmanship
Blog: Creating the Alt CV
Items of the Month
Item of the Month January 2004: Make your own luck
NLP evening course diary
Item of the Month December 2003: Word Scanning
Item of the Month November 2003: Detach the meaning of a word
Item of the Month October 2003: How much are you owed?
Item of the Month September 2003: Creativity and connections
Item of the Month August 2003: Exam Tension!
The Girlfriend / Partner debate
Item of the Month July 2003: Reith Lectures
Item of the Month June 2003: Googlism
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Allow the future to happen to you
Hope is energy
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Failure Demand
Against customer satisfaction
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Leadership...
Dan Oestreich on leadership
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Four stages of learning
Responses to dissatisfaction
Three levels of perception
Why did that evolve?
How we see the world...
How we see the world
Your are your history
A new model for communication
Stuff happens, you interpret it
You find what you look for
Investment thinking
Activation Energy
Motivation...
Motivation overview
Inherent evil
Inherent good
Herzberg's hygeine factors
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
McClelland's motivational needs
Vroom's expectancy theory
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Networked hierarchies
Spreading activation
Are you throwing a rock or a bird?
From NLP class...
Thinking environment
Wheel of life
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Food Miles
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The two slits experiment
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Essays
Philosophy
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Why study philosophy?
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In the Matrix, which pill would you take, the red or the blue?
Epistemology:
What can I know?
Scepticism:
How do I know that I am not, at present, plugged into a virtual reality machine?
Tripartite theory:
Assess the view that knowledge is a justified, true belief.
Rationalism Vs Empiricism:
Which is the stronger source for knowledge, reason or experience?
Foundationalism:
Assess whether foundationalism is an adequate system of justification of knowledge
Representative Realism:
Assess whether or not representative realism provides an adequate response to the problems encountered by naïve realism and idealism
Rene Descartes
Cogito
I think therefore I am:
How do I know that I am not, at present, plugged into a virtual reality machine?
Ontological proof of God:
Evaluate whether or not the Cartesian notion of 'clear and distinct ideas' is a sound enough basis from which to prove the existence of God.
Trademark proof of God:
Assess the trademark argument for the existence of God.
Ethics
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Assess what a deontologist would say about abortion.
Philosophy of mind
Parallelism:
Essay: Assess the view that mental states run parallel to, but are not causally affected by physical states
Functionalism:
Essay: Assess Functionalism
Materialism and reaction:
Essay: A rejection of the view that the mind is merely reactive
Eliminative Materialism:
Essay: Assess the view that consciousness can be dispensed of entirely
Mind-Brain Identity:
Essay: Critically discuss the idea that mental states are identical to physical states
Property Dualism:
Essay: Assess the view that mental states are non-reducible properties of brain states
Biological Naturalism:
Essay: Assess the view that conscious states are natural processes of brain states
Free will:
Essay: Can we have free will? Dave's theory of destiny / choice duality
Responses: Can randomness allow for choice?
Solipsism
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Assess the view that we start from our own case
David Hume
Species of philosophy
Describe and illustrate the two species of philosophy Hume identifies in section 1 of the enquiries
Synoptic
Synoptic: Explain and discuss Hume's contribution to the problem of free will
Identity
Psychological continuity
Assess the view that identity is psychological continuity
Bundle theory
Assess the view that there is no such thing as identity
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